William (Bill) Lakanen

On October 31, 1945, William Lakanen, a 44-year-old White male, left Rawlins, Wyoming on what should have been another hard, routine day of field work and never came back. Lakanen was a Wyoming Game and Fish agent, and that day he and fellow warden Don Simpson went into the Sierra Madre country near Rawlins to follow up on reports tied to illegal beaver hunting and to check a trapper's catch in the rough country around Jim Creek and Nugget Gulch. It was lonely, high-country country, the kind of ...

Agent Bill Lakanen - Wyoming - Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP)

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